Basic features on Node
https://frontendmasters.com/courses/building-web-apps-with-node-js/#v=yapzwma9x9&skip=1Interactive mode
A hello world example (note: without third-party libs)
$ node
then you can play with some codeStandard libraries- async by default - passing callbacks (e.g. an http request is completed)
- low level (higher level abstractions are provided by the community)
- http is first class citizen (the "hello world" of Node)
var http = require("http");
http.createServer(function(request, response){
response.writeHead(200, {
"Content-Type":"text/plain"
});
response.end("hello world");
}).listen(3000)
httpServer is part of the core